PC: Begginer- How To Install Mods

Chromega · Post by **Chromega** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:57 pm

First off this is NOT by me. It was origionally posted by Duffmn04 in the regular Halomods forum.

Here is the Tutorial -Its easy to follow-

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be sure to back up your maps before modding... here's how:

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If you just selected "express install" or didn't mess with the install directory:
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1. Go to My Computer, then "C:Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\MAPS"

2. press "ctrl" + "a"
3. Go back up to the Halo folder, and create a new folder. Title the folder "BACKUPS"

4. Go into this folder, and hit "ctrl" + "v"

5. wait a few moments for the copy operation to complete. On Windows XP platforms, this should only take about one minute max, depending slightly on your HD rotating speed and sometimes processor speed (which would only influence the write speed if it were a slow processor, like say, 700 and below).

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Else If ("you selected your own directory" = 1)
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1. follow the tut as above, except use the directory you used to install Halo in.

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To install a mod, you must affect a map in your "MAPS" folder. This is done in a different number of ways, depending on what file types you recieve:

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If it's a .map file
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1. Right-click the mod you want installed and hit copy

2. Go to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\MAPS" again, and select paste. If it doesn't overwrite another file, you have a problem and have rights to ask about your problem in the thread you found the mod...

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If it's a .ppf file
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(you will need PPF-O-Matic for this)

1. Go to ppf-o-matic (search files.halomods.com for it)

2. Where it says "ISO file", click the little disk next to it.

3. click on the "ISO" box, and select "all files" instead.

4. browse to your "MAPS" folder

5. select the appropriate map to apply the ppf to (the filename should tell you this), and click "open"

4. Hit "apply". If it says "file sizes are not the same!", or something like that, you have either applied the ppf to the wrong file, or the ppf is **** (a rare occurance, dont immediately go for this explaination)

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If you recieve a ".rar" file:
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a rar is a compressed file, much like a ".zip" file. it can be extracted by winrar, found at http://rarlabs.com/ (note: be sure to get Winrar, and not anything relating to ".tar", which is a very old file type designed only to bunch files together in one file uncompressed)

1. double click on the file; it should open in Winrar. Simply find the "extract all" (or whatever it's called) button, and why not check the "open in explorer" button in the bottom left corner to save us the trouble of finding the decompressed folder by ourselves?

2. there should be files in your new folder, either (magically!) .ppf's or .map's! miracle, no? follow the above steps to apply them

A random piece of advice that I've never seen to be useful, but why not...

3. if you recieve any .exe, .bat, .vb/s files or anything else besides ppf's, map's, text documents, or image (.jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png etc.) files, they could be infected with viruses or other malicious files, and shouldd not be trusted.
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keep in mind that often times you will be required to install multiple .ppf files or a .map file and a .ppf file.

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Installing Skins
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You need HMT for this. Get it at Files.Halomods.com in the Utilities section.

1. Unzip the file your skins came in using WinRAR and place the skins in a folder.

2. Start up HMT.

3. In HMT, open up the map Bloodgulch. It's in Mycomputer/C: localdisk/programfiles/microsoftgames/halo/maps.

4. Once you've opened Bloodgulch, go to "bitmaps". It's near the top of the list of stuff that showed up when you opened Bloodgulch. Duh.

5. Find which thing the skins are for and install them. i.e. If it's for the chaingun on a warthog, go the "Vehicles/warthog/bitmaps/warthog chaingun.

6. Click "inject texture".

7. Browse for the skin you want to install and hit ok.

8. Fin.

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For HaloCE
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For this tutorial, I'm going to assume you've downloaded HaloCE. If not, go to the gearbox forums. Try all the links till you find one that works.

1. Create a folder for your HaloCE stuff, otherwise it gets crowded. I would suggest putting a shortcut to the HaloCE maps folder for easy access.

2. Download a map. The best place(IMO) is haloworld.halocity.org

3. Save the map to the folder you created for HaloCE

4. Open it up using WinRAR

5. Take the .map file out of WinRAR and place it in the HaloCE folder you made

6. Copy and paste into the map folder for HaloCE

7. Done
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Thats the basics of it. Hopfully people will read this instead of asking all the time in other threads.

Mike1220 · Post by **Mike1220** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:45 am

i installed mods but they dont work plz help PS if u have xfire add me its Halorulz32 thanks!!!

dethfromabuv · Post by **dethfromabuv** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:50 pm

i cant find ppf-o-matic on halomods plz hlp!

dethfromabuv · Post by **dethfromabuv** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:35 pm

sry 2 double post but i got winrar and ppf-o-matic but i cant open ppf-o-matic do i need to use another program to open it?

goilla69 · Post by **goilla69** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:45 pm

ZOMG THATS HOW YOU DO IT?!?!?!

dethfromabuv · Post by **dethfromabuv** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:25 pm

hey do u need to use a program to open ppf-o-matic cuz whenever i try to openit on its own it wont let me (like when u try 2 open a .map file on its own).

gam3r2899 · Post by **gam3r2899** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:35 am

how do u install new model mods?

MasterNeoChief · Post by **MasterNeoChief** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:37 am

1) http://halo2.filefront.com/file/ppfomatic_30;34545 Perfectly fine PPFoMatic.

2) You insert Milkshape models with HMT.

3) You open the PPFoMatic with an .exe file. Nothing else.

Legend245 · Post by **Legend245** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:04 am

A question about skins:Does it always have to be applied to bloodgulch, or is there a way to make your skins apply to every map the game? J/w

bobmooglitcher · Post by **bobmooglitcher** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:55 pm

what do you do if it's an sppf file?

kewlhotrod · Post by **kewlhotrod** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:02 pm

LOL! this thread has a 13337 amount of views... literally xD

full link to image http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6041 ... ewsgm6.jpg

Glitcherguy · Post by **Glitcherguy** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:02 am

Ok but how do i make other people see my mods online?

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:25 am

Have them download a copy of your mod. Only a handful of modded effects are "joiner friendly."

noobhaloer · Post by **noobhaloer** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:35 pm

IT DOESN'T WORK!!! quote "can't open the specified image file (c:\program files\microsoft games\halo trial\maps\bloodgulch.map" unquote
OMFGAAAAH!!!! YOU *bang* RETARDED *bang* $1000 *bang* LAPTOP!!!! *bang bang bang*

note: ppf says this, and i followed the instructions explicitly

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:35 pm

Well obviously you didn't, and stop using all caps and stuff...

noobhaloer · Post by **noobhaloer** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:02 pm

yes i did. someone help me. and if your not trying to help me, stfu

Note: Windows XP.
PPF 3
Halo Trial
got the mods from here, and NO mods work no matter what site their from.

i figured it out ... @_@ im not an admin on my computer. i have to ask my dad to do this 8p

Don't harass other members with rude comments.
Don't double post.
Don't triple post.

darkzelkova · Post by **darkzelkova** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:58 pm

just a note - you forgot to say press control-c after step 2 of the first tutorial.

Sk8eRzRuLe · Post by **Sk8eRzRuLe** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:20 am

Yeah, I'm compleetly aware that this is a big bump, but i dont care. Before you flame, just read this first, this might save some pplz computers.
http://www.halomods.com/site2/geeklog-1 ... pf-o-matic
idk if THAT ppf-o-matic got infected, or if it is the entire ppf-o-matic deal.

anyways, I need a fuckin ppf thing, but if this http://halo2.filefront.com/file/ppfomat ... 45x#522133 is infected, then I dont want to have anything to do with it.

hollow121314 · Post by **hollow121314** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:33 am

you cant bump a sticky.

And its just that ppf o matic

outlaw3000 · Post by **outlaw3000** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:54 am

i tried to do wat they said but i dont see the C:program any were can u tell me more.

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